"War is terrorism with a bigger budget," read one neatly written placard.
"Dear Cathy & Claire, I found this matter in my pants this morning," read one neatly written letter containing a sinister sample.
Six years later, as I read the neatly typed words on the page that inquire after my health and offer prayers for my cancer recovery, I am struck not only by the compassion and concern but the excellent composition and use of language.
Interspersed with the news were music and dancing and poetry-reading tables with neatly stacked books, leaflets, posters, and T-shirts, which filled nearly all the space along the fences.
There is a line in Muriel Spark's new novel, Aiding and Abetting (her twenty-first) which gave me a shock of recognition when I read it, so neatly might it apply to the author herself: '[She] had long felt that sentimentality was a luxury she could not afford.'ItIt could be true.' Dame Muriel rearranges herself on the sofa and considers.
Instead of constantly jumping in and out of links, everything you want to read could be neatly folded up inside Twitter.
Yet I still experience a kind of eye-rubbing incredulity when reading chapters two and three, sitting neatly under the official website banner of the Scottish executive.
But she could easily turn the tables on us: in 1847, Brontë was a gateway to the future (as the fact that we are reading her today so neatly proves).
Sister Marcella continued reading out from her neatly kept records as I scribbled down more precious pieces of information.
Students must sit with hands clasped and eyes following the speaker; reading passages must be neatly annotated with a main idea.
He wrote his first short story at 18. 'My father agreed to send the story to the literary editor of [broadsheet] Folha de Sao Paulo only after reading it first.' Buarque neatly explains the father-son relationship.
